This is an analysis of the poem The Lacking Sense Scene.--A Sad-Coloured Landscape, Waddon Vale that begins with:

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"O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXXX X XbcXdX X babbXX X XabeXbb a ebeff a XcbdaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,6,1,6,1,7,1,5,1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1011101010101010 101110100110111 111101100101110 01010101010101 1010100100 1 1010101001101010 101001101110111 1101101101011 10 11011111010101 11011100 1 1010111010101010 1100010101011 1 100100110101110 01011101011101 1000100 1 1011101010101100 10111010011011 1 110111001100 100 111010001110101 1010101 1 1100010101001010 1010010100111111 1010101010100110 111110100010101 101101 1 1010101111101000 1111010111010 1 1111110010100010 010111000010111 1110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, she are repeated.

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